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Stephanie Kass's avatar

Fuck the throat-clearing. I have never actually believed in karma, or as my dad referred to it this weekend, "poetic justice," but EXHIBIT FUCKING A, B, C, D.... I don't have the energy to discern the complicated moral questions my personal feelings are raising because that was unfortunately depleted throughout the last six months of a pandemic that the president* chose to coverup and then downplay and then affirmatively act to falsify the positivity rates in children in an effort to aid his reelection. But talk about fucking karma.

It's not just that the president* got COVID and it's not just that MANY other GOP members got COVID. It's that they got COVID a month out from an election that hinges on the public's perception of the admin's handling of the very disease that has now effectively ended any campaign activities to spin the handling of that disease. It's that the superspreader event that caused this outbreak is tied to a Rose Garden event related to the OTHER defining issue of the election, which is the GOP's unlawful and immoral attempt to shove a Supreme Court justice into a lifetime appointment less than a month before the election that might hinge on that same Court's determination.

AND. AND. Not one, but TWO GOP senators ON THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, which is tasked with actually getting that judicial nominee into place within a month of the election, got COVID at that same event.

Whether this is karma or poetic justice or my raging schadenfreude, it is impossible to not feel unsettlingly kind of okay with this. It is literally payback in the narrowest and most specific sense. I should say that I don't want any of these assholes to die, and that's not throat-clearing. I want them to face justice and live with the consequences for ALL of this.

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Farecoal's avatar

I'll say it. I hope these assholes die, and also die alone and afraid! It's the least they deserve.

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Stephanie Kass's avatar

It's really a personal preference -- for me I'd rather they suffer the long-term effects of COVID while slowly dying in a poorly managed prison. Tomato tomahto.

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sickduck's avatar

i'd also prefer they have bad bouts of covid but live to see justice and the inside of a real shitty prison cell

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Stephanie Kass's avatar

this is a really esoteric reference but I keep thinking of this sketch from The State (starting at 9 mins 30 secs) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjOvmSY8tws

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biff_wonsley's avatar

Alone...or in front of their children? It's a toss-up for me. Probably harsh on the children, unless they are adult enablers of their parent's awfulness.

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